Resumo Objetivo analisar a relação entre qualidade do sono e funcionalidade familiar de idosos cuidadores de idosos em contexto de alta vulnerabilidade social. Método estudo transversal, quantitativo, realizado com 65 idosos que cuidavam de idosos, no período de julho de 2019 a março de 2020, a partir dos seguintes instrumentos: questionário de caracterização, Índice de Qualidade do Sono de Pittsburgh para aval...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship among sleep and sociodemographic aspects, health, frailty, performance in activities of daily living, cognitive performance and depressive symptoms of older residents in the community. Method: a cross-sectional, quantitative study was conducted with 81 older adults residents in the area covered by a Family Health Unit in the city of São Carlos (SP), Brazil. Data c...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship between frailty, depressive symptoms, and quality of life of elderly caregivers of other elderly living in high social vulnerability. Methods: a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study conducted with 40 elderly caregivers. A questionnaire to characterize elderly caregivers, the Fried frailty phenotype, the Geriatric Depression Scale (to screen depress...
ABSTRACT. Given the benefits of adequate family function for the health and well-being of older adults, it is important to understand what factors predict adequate family function in older people who care for their spouses. Objective: Analyse predictors of family function in older spousal caregivers. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used to investigate a non-probabilistic sample of 298 older spousal ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the association between frailty, loneliness and depressive symptoms of elderly caregivers. Method: a cross - sectional study carried out with 341 elderly caregivers enrolled in Family Health Units of a city in the countryside of São Paulo State. The interviews were domiciliary and included questionnaire for characterization of the caregiver, Fried’s frailty phenotype, family A...
ABSTRACT Some cognitive dimensions, such as attention, memory and executive functions, may decline with age, while other functions remain intact or even improve due to greater life experience. Objective: to analyze the relationship between cognitive processing, language and verbal fluency among elderly individuals seen by primary healthcare services located in a city in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. Method...
Resumo O objetivo do estudo foi associar a fragilidade com perfil sociodemográfico e cognição de idosos residentes em contexto de alta vulnerabilidade social cadastrados em um Centro de Referência de Assistência Social em um município do interior paulista. Estudo transversal e quantitativo realizado com 48 idosos. Para a coleta de dados utilizou-se entrevista sociodemográfica, Escala de Fragilidade de Edmonton ...
RESUMO Objetivo: analisar a relação entre fragilidade, sintomas depressivos e sobrecarga de idosos cuidadores em contexto de alta vulnerabilidade social. Método: estudo correlacional, de corte transversal, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado com 73 idosos cuidadores primários de outros idosos cadastrados em Unidades de Saúde da Família inseridas em contextos de alta vulnerabilidade social de um município do i...
ABSTRACT Objective: Identifying prevalence of frailty in elderly caregivers inserted in a high social vulnerability context and its correlation with sociodemographic and health aspects. Method: Descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study. Forty elderly caregivers were evaluated with: questionnaire for caregiver characterization, Mini Mental State Examination, Katz Index, Lawton instrumental activities ...
Resumo Objetivo: Caracterizar os cuidadores idosos que cuidam de outros idosos em contexto de alta vulnerabilidade social. Métodos: Estudo descritivo e transversal, realizado com 40 cuidadores idosos utilizando-se: questionário para caracterização do cuidador, Mini Exame do Estado Mental, Índice de Katz, Escala de atividades instrumentais de vida diária de Lawton, Escala de Depressão Geriátrica e o fenótipo de ...